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Last update: : 23.08.2016
Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have shown in mice that a low-protein diet increases fat and carbohydrate burning, thus raising energy expenditure. Changing the animals' diet…
Press releaseLast update: : 12.08.2016
Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) are examining a promising agent against cancer of the immune system. In this type of cancer, the tumor cells…
Press releaseLast update: : 08.08.2016
Grant Hansman, head of the CHS Research Group noroviruses, has raised funding under the BMBF funding program "Validation of the Technological and Social Innovation Potential of Scientific Research"…
Press releaseLast update: : 01.08.2016
The Ligand PD-L1 is one of the most important targets for cancer immunotherapy with checkpoint inhibitors. But not all tumors have sufficient quantities of PD-L1 ligands on their surface. Scientists…
Press releaseLast update: : 29.07.2016
David Brocks, a PhD student at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), has developed a method that enables him to make epigenetic differences between cancer cells and healthy cells audible. To do…
Press releaseLast update: : 27.07.2016
Lutz Gissmann from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) has been honored with the award in recognition of his research results, which were seminal contributions to the development of a vaccine…
Press releaseLast update: : 19.07.2016
Dietrich Keppler, who was head of a research division at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) until 2007, has been awarded the 2016 international Adolf Windaus…
Press releaseLast update: : 29.06.2016
If chromosomes are distributed unevenly during cell division, this has a negative effect on the survival of daughter cells. However, in many cancer types, misaligned chromosomes are associated with a…
Press releaseLast update: : 20.06.2016
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) causes hepatitis B, an infectious disease that afflicts 230 million people worldwide, thereof 440 000 in Germany. Persistence of the virus in liver cells leads to progressive…
Press releaseLast update: : 09.06.2016
Metastasized colorectal cancer is difficult to treat. Scientists at the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) and the Heidelberg University Hospital in collaboration with the German Cancer…
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